"What is your cultivation, fellow Daoist?"
"Foundation Establishment. Foundation Establishment late stage."
"Are you skilled in any of the Hundred Arts?"
"...Does that need to be registered too?"
"Of course. Incense Dao cultivators may be lurking about these days. This is also to ensure your safety, so you must register truthfully."
"Well...all right. I know a little Artifact Refining."
"What is your name?"
"My surname is Li, given name Ji."
"What brings you into the city?"
"I have to tell you that too...? All right. I came to find Master Shen Fu."
"Master Shen, eh? Plenty of people want to see him every day, but you can count those who actually manage it on your fingers."
"Have any of you met him, then?"
"Heh, we don't carry that much weight. All right, go on in."
"Thank you."
He walked in through the city gates.
Li Ji looked around.
After several rounds of expansion, the once-small Yongan City still seemed cramped.
Li Ji had heard something about this.
It was mainly because the city had gathered many cultivators skilled in the Hundred Arts, including some renowned cultivators honored with the title of "master."
Among them, the one currently riding the highest was undoubtedly Master Shen Fu, who had introduced second-tier Spirit Chicken Essence.
It was the presence of these people that drew many Rogue Cultivators from across the Yan Kingdom.
And the Three Great Sects' change in attitude toward Rogue Cultivators made these people willing to spend vast sums of Spirit Stones to settle in the city.
This had made Yongan City's population increasingly bloated.
But it had also clearly brought prosperity to the cultivation-related businesses here.
What puzzled Li Ji, however, was that although Yongan City remained prosperous today, it was noticeably quieter than when he had last visited.
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